Provincial Russia . to prevent the peasants flocking south-ward on their own accord, as the Chinese at thepresent day pour into Manchuria, threatening to celestiaHze Vladivostock itself. Towards thewest, colonization was due only indirectly to thePolish Government. Enormous tracts of therecovered land were granted to great seigneurs,who settled them with their serfs, promising thesetwenty or thirty years of absolute freedom. Butthe new inhabitants came into conflict with theirpredecessors, and the result was to send the freeCossack ever farther into the steppe, and to openever wdder districts
Provincial Russia . to prevent the peasants flocking south-ward on their own accord, as the Chinese at thepresent day pour into Manchuria, threatening to celestiaHze Vladivostock itself. Towards thewest, colonization was due only indirectly to thePolish Government. Enormous tracts of therecovered land were granted to great seigneurs,who settled them with their serfs, promising thesetwenty or thirty years of absolute freedom. Butthe new inhabitants came into conflict with theirpredecessors, and the result was to send the freeCossack ever farther into the steppe, and to openever wdder districts of its fertile plain to theplough. In the borderland between Slav and Turk, theCossacks succeeded in forming free and powerfulrepublics, in which the military features becameaccentuated. Their ranks were constantly swelledby peasants, debtors from higher classes, brokenmen whose lives were forfeit, and loA^rs of fighting,booty, and freedom. The Tsar, said one of theirproverbs, rules at Moscow, and the Cossack on the. «H* y >»> r^bio U
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